Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708006

Category: Shirt

Region: Plains

Tribe: Hidatsa - Mandan?, Fort Berthold

Period: 1875-1900

Materials: Native tanned deerskin; porcupine quills; red wool trade cloth; cotton thread; sinew sewn.

Description: Man's shirt decorated with quilled shoulder and sleeve strips. Red trade cloth around neck with a quilled neck tab. Lengthy hide fringe hanging from sleeves and shoulder strips; smaller fringe from cuffs and bottom of shirt.

Dimensions: Height 29 inches; Width 23 inches

Provenance:

Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

Splendid Heritage, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, February 10, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wy, May 1, 2010 - October 31, 2010
Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Mo, Febuary 12, 2010 - April 24, 2010

References:

Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 176

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